Psychology for Non-Majors Exam Solutions
Course Introduction
Psychology for Non-Majors offers an accessible introduction to the scientific study of human behavior and mental processes, tailored for students outside the psychology major. This course explores foundational topics such as learning, memory, development, personality, psychological disorders, and social interactions, emphasizing real-world applications and relevance to various fields. Through case studies, experiments, and interactive discussions, students gain a practical understanding of psychological principles and how they impact everyday life, decision-making, and interactions with others.
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Psychology in Your Life 1st Edition by Sarah Grison
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Chapter 1: Introducing the World of Psychology
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Q1) Informed consent means that
A) participants' information must be kept strictly confidential.
B) participants must be told about a research study and allowed to choose whether or not they would like to participate.
C) a research study has been reviewed and approved by a group of reviewers based on ethical standards.
D) a researcher is not permitted to observe people in public places without their knowledge.
Answer: B
Q2) The mayor of Houston is conducting an experiment to determine whether introducing gym classes in certain school districts will lower the rate of childhood obesity.Identify the dependent and independent variables in this study.
Answer: Suggested answer: The dependent variable is obesity.The independent variable is the gym classes.
Q3) Explain correlations by providing a personal example of a positive correlation and a negative correlation.Hint: Think of two variables in your personal life that are strongly related to each other.
Answer: Suggested answer: Answers will vary.
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Chapter 2: The Role of Biology in Psychology
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Q1) Why do monozygotic twins have different phenotypes?
A) They have different genotypes.
B) They have nonshared environments.
C) They have the same environments but different genes.
D) Because they are fraternal twins.
Answer: B
Q2) Information travels from our sensory receptors to the __________ in the brain,which relays it to the cortex.
A) basal ganglia
B) hypothalamus
C) thalamus
D) cerebellum
Answer: C
Q3) An instructor looking at the faces of the students in her class is also looking at A) stereotypes.
B) archetypes.
C) genotypes.
D) phenotypes.
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Consciousness
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Q1) Sleeping people who show theta waves on their EEGs are most likely in __________ sleep.
A) stage 1
B) stage 2
C) stage 3
D) REM
Answer: A
Q2) Elizabeth is awake and alert while playing a video game.Her brain activity will most likely be characterized by __________ waves.
A) alpha
B) beta
C) theta
D) delta
Answer: B
Q3) Stimulant drugs have all of the following effects EXCEPT increasing A) heart rate.
B) blood pressure.
C) mood.
D) sleep.
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Development Across the Life Span
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Q1) Professor Chen wants to study the motivation for stealing.Which of the following colleagues should he consult?
A) Lawrence Kohlberg
B) Erik Erikson
C) Jean Piaget
D) Harry Harlow
Q2) Kane and MJ are sitting across from each other drawing pictures of their family room.When asked to draw the family room from MJ's perspective,Kane draws a picture of what he can see himself.Kane is likely in the ________ stage of cognitive development.
A) sensorimotor
B) concrete operational
C) formal operational
D) preoperational
Q3) Think back to your high school experience.
a)Define a clique and name and describe at least three different friend groups that were present at your school.
b)Why are these groups valuable for adolescent socio-emotional development?
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Chapter 5: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) Which of the following detects temperature and then sends information about temperature to the brain?
A) warm and cold receptors
B) fast and slow fibers
C) cranial and spinal nerves
D) kinesthetic and vestibular senses
Q2) Prolonged exposure to movement in one direction __________ the motion detectors responsive to that direction.When the movement stops,the baseline firing rate of detectors for the opposite direction of motion will be __________ than the firing rate for the detectors that responded to the prolonged movement,leading to motion aftereffects.
A) sensitizes; higher
B) sensitizes; lower
C) fatigues; higher
D) fatigues; lower
Q3) A)Define sensory adaptation.
B)Provide one example of sensory adaptation.
Q4) Explain the steps involved in touch sensation and perception.
Q5) Distinguish between bottom-up and top-down processing.
Q6) Explain "difference threshold."
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Chapter 7: Memory
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Q1) Inattention and the shallow encoding of events can often result in __________,which leads to forgetting.
A) absentmindedness
B) suggestibility
C) persistence
D) blocking
Q2) A)Describe the levels of processing model.
B)Explain the difference between maintenance and elaborative rehearsal
C)Provide an example of maintenance and elaborative rehearsal (one example for each kind of rehearsal).
Q3) If someone asks you to describe what a school is,you would most likely retrieve a(n)__________ memory.
A) procedural
B) implicit
C) episodic
D) semantic
Q4) A)Explain the phenomenon of change blindness.
B)What does it tell us about attention and information processing?
C)Give one real-world example of change blindness.
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Chapter 8: Thinking and Intelligence
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Q1) Seven-year-old Zoe is baking cookies for the first time.She does not know what a tablespoon is,so every time the recipe says to use a tablespoon,she uses a teaspoon instead.Zoe's system of measurement has __________ and __________.
A) low validity; low reliability
B) high validity; low reliability
C) high validity; high reliability
D) low validity; high reliability
Q2) Although many successful musicians may not have "book smarts," they certainly have the "street smarts" needed to succeed in the music industry.The theory of intelligence that best accounts for this observation about "book smarts" and "street smarts" in musicians is the __________ theory.
A) triarchic
B) general intelligence
C) emotional intelligence
D) crystallized intelligence
Q3) A.Describe the difference between analogical and symbolic representations. B.Provide an example of an analogical and a symbolical representation (one example each).
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Chapter 9: Motivation and Emotion
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Q1) Blythe had a large breakfast in the late morning.Even though she was planning to skip lunch,she starts to feel hungry at noon and decides to eat.The fact that Blythe wants to eat at her normal lunchtime even though she ate a late breakfast can be best explained by
A) classical conditioning.
B) homeostatic adjustment.
C) poor self-regulation.
D) low self-efficacy.
Q2) Parvati is a competitive gymnast at the Olympic trials.She is highly motivated to perform her absolute best.Given your knowledge of the effects of arousal on performance,the best advice you can give Parvati is that she should calm down because
A) very high arousal can hurt her performance.
B) very low arousal can help her performance.
C) extrinsic motivation will reduce her ability to focus.
D) self-efficacy will increase her ability to focus.
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Chapter 10: Health and Well-Being
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Q1) Recently,Arianna and Raymond had their first child.They are experiencing difficulty dealing with the lack of sleep and demands of the new baby.The kind of stress Arianna and Raymond are experiencing is called
A) general adaptation syndrome.
B) a daily hassle.
C) mediating factors.
D) major life stressor.
Q2) A stressor is any event or stimulus that
A) threatens an organism and elicits a coping response.
B) cannot be coped with.
C) cannot be coped with in the short term.
D) by definition has negative consequences for the organism.
Q3) Which of the following people is most likely to develop coronary heart disease at some point in his life?
A) John, a counseling psychologist who is laid-back and enjoys his job
B) Erik, a CEO of a Fortune 500 company who takes frequent vacations
C) Louis, a competitive poker play who is aggressive, impatient, and competitive
D) Jarrod, an elementary school teacher who readily accommodates his coworkers and is easygoing
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Chapter 11: Social Psychology
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Q1) When Milgram modified his shock experiment so that the experimenter gave the teacher orders over the telephone,the level of obedience
A) decreased.
B) increased slightly.
C) dramatically increased.
D) remained unchanged.
Q2) Elena is working on a team project for her computer science class.Although the entire team is responsible for the project,some people do not feel responsible for contributing to it.Because of this,some team members do not complete their assigned tasks.This is most likely due to A) group polarization.
B) groupthink.
C) social facilitation.
D) social loafing.
Q3) a.Describe Sherif's summer camp study.
b.What did Sherif do to create hostility between the two groups?
c.How did Sherif reduce this hostility?
d.Provide an example of how this study could apply to the real world.
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Chapter 12: Self and Personality
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Q1) John thinks that his behaviors are influenced by the environment that he is in and not his personality traits.John believes in a psychological idea known as A) locus of control.
B) situationism.
C) interactionism.
D) reciprocal determinism.
Q2) Tom was hungry,so he went to a fast-food restaurant.He did not have any money,so when a young girl left her burger unattended,Tom quickly grabbed her burger and left.According to the psychodynamic theory of personality,his actions were most likely driven by his A) defense mechanisms.
B) id.
C) ego.
D) superego.
Q3) a.Define self-schema.
b.Then explain at least two ways in which your self-schema influences how you process information.
Q4) a.Explain the person/situation debate in personality.
b.How does this relate to weak and strong situations?
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Chapter 13: Psychological Disorders
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Q1) According to your text,in any given year,one in four Americans over age 18 has a psychological disorder.However,there are large differences in which disorders occur more in each sex.
a.Describe one factor (biological,environmental,psychological,sociocultural)that would explain why women are more likely to experience major depressive disorder and anxiety disorders.
b.Describe one factor (biological,environmental,psychological,sociocultural)that would explain why men are more likely to experience antisocial personality disorder and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
a. Describe one factor (biological, environmental, psychological, sociocultural) that would explain why women are more likely to experience major depressive disorder and anxiety disorders.
b. Describe one factor (biological, environmental, psychological, sociocultural) that would explain why men are more likely to experience antisocial personality disorder and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
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Chapter 14: Psychological Treatments
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Q1) For the past year,Howard has been engaged in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT)because he suffers from borderline personality disorder.
a. In general, what obstacles to treatment are presented by people with personality disorders?
b. Explain the phases of DBT. (Hint: What is the goal? What happens at each step?)
Q2) Sharon is a 45-year-old woman living in the United States who recently was diagnosed with schizophrenia.Sharon believes that she is Abraham Lincoln.When asked by her mother if she believes that she has any special powers or abilities that other people do not have,Sharon responds by saying,"I don't know.I don't eat cows."
Confused,her mother tries to have Sharon explain what she means,to which Sharon replies,"If you were in outer space,would you play catch with a piano?"
a. Describe one biological treatment and one therapeutic technique that you would recommend to treat Sharon.
b. Knowing that Sharon is a middle-aged woman in the United States, discuss her prognosis. (Hint: How do these characteristics affect her possible outcomes?)
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Chapter 6: Learning
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Q1) Twins Malcolm and Molly are learning to ride a bike.Molly watches Malcolm's attempts for several minutes and then tries to ride her own bike.During this process,Molly's mirror neurons are _______.
A) never active
B) active when she is watching Malcolm
C) active when she tries to ride her bike
D) active when she watches Malcolm and when she rides her own bike
Q2) Dr.Wolfgang would like to conduct a study examining how children learn to use slang words based on listening to their peers.Dr.Wolfgang's research would benefit if he read the work of a psychologist who investigated observational learning: _______.
A) John Watson
B) Edward Tolman
C) Alfred Bandura
D) B. F. Skinner
Q3) Reinforcement that comes after a predetermined amount of time is called
A) variable ratio
B) fixed ratio
C) fixed interval
D) variable interval
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